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View synonyms for thereabout

thereabout

or there·a·bouts

[ thair-uh-bout, thair-uh-bout ]

adverb

  1. about or near that place or time:

    last June or thereabout.

  2. about that number, amount, etc.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of thereabout1

before 950; Middle English ther aboute, Old English thǣr abūtan. See there, about

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Example Sentences

So Meekins, at noon or thereabout, set off for Philadelphia, and before dark he was heard from.

T is the finest part of the city and the merriest, for the best hostelries are in the Place Baudet and thereabout.

And so they went to Salem, and some places thereabout, to visit and build up their friends in the faith.

Andrew Harben considered, and he saw what a mess he would start thereabout if he ever let his lights go out.

With studied elegance, the Comte put his hat to his breast, or thereabout, and bowed as he held open the door.

He was a man of sixty or thereabout, with a shrewd but not unkindly face that had something familiar in it.

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